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Jared Ronski

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The Power of Blockchain for Ecommerce

The ecommerce payments landscape is evolving as mobile and alternative payment methods rise in popularity. Worldwide mobile payment revenue is expected to exceed $1 trillion in 2019 and more than 2.1B consumers are expected to use mobile payments by this year. The dynamic changes happening in the payments space also raise questions about speed, c...

09 January 2019 /payments Blockchain Observations

The Chargeback Battle Has Just Begun

The hustle and bustle of holiday shopping season is in full-swing, and with it comes the threat of a spike in chargebacks. While the excitement of increased ecommerce sales—to the tune of a predicted $119.99 billion—may glisten in merchants’ eyes, they should not forget what is lurking around after the holiday excitement calms. This increased ecom...

04 December 2018 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

High Risk Holidays: Avoiding Termination During Peak Season

As the holidays swing into full-gear in 2018, high risk ecommerce merchants are well-advised to prepare their business for an onslaught of sales—and fraud. With an expected 15% year-over-year increase in online sales, high risk merchants are especially prone to problems arising from volume spikes, fraud spikes, and bad actors looking to exploit on...

05 November 2018 /security /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

3 Tips to Keep the Chargeback Grinch From Stealing Christmas

We’re barrelling into the busy Q4 holiday season and merchants have one big lump of coal on their minds: chargebacks. Chargeback are a costly problem—a problem that escalates during the high volume holiday shopping season. According to Lexis Nexis, every $1 of fraud costs merchants an average of $3.29—an increase of 24% over 2017. Thankfully, th...

03 October 2018 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

5 Best Practices for Mobile Payments in 2018

Mobile commerce is on track to comprise over 63% of ecommerce sales in 2018, and an estimated 73% by 2021 according to Statista. It’s no wonder that top-tier companies are investing heavily into their mobile strategies. These investments are often used to improve the user experience with intuitive, fast-loading designs, mobile-first optimizations...

11 September 2018 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Why You Should Start Thinking About Your Holiday Chargeback Prevention Plan Now

Chargebacks are an unfortunate fact of life for most merchants. They’re damaging and tedious, represent lost revenue, dent your reputation and can get you classified as a high risk merchant if you have too many. Many merchants don’t fully understand what a chargeback is, what they can do if they have one, and (most importantly) how to prevent the

15 August 2018 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

5 Tips to Streamline Ecommerce Payments and Improve Customer Experience at Checkout

Digital payments are on the rise, and if you’re an ecommerce merchant, you’ll want to capitalize on this growth. But as this sector continues to become more popular, payment processing systems have the potential to become ever more complex. Between credit card companies, banks, retailers, and consumers, the payments processing landscape represent...

16 July 2018 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Why Startups Need to Make Payments Experience a Priority

In 2017, U.S. online retail experienced the largest year to year growth since 2011, and ecommerce represented 13 percent of total retail sales. Clearly, consumers like shopping online, and that trend is only expected to grow. And if you’re a startup, it’s absolutely vital your payment experience is user-friendly: 75 percent of startups fail, and t...

19 June 2018 /payments /startups Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Evolving Payments in the Era of IoT

The Internet of Things (IoT) – once a buzzword – is now becoming a reality. As we approach a staggering 31 billion connected devices worldwide within the next two years, retailers are wondering how to edge in on this new technology to increase revenues. Retailers that have already bought into this technology as a way to sell are enjoying a myriad...

14 May 2018 /ai /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030